Hershey Electric Railway

Hershey Electric Railway
Hershey Electric Railway
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Ferrocarriles de Cuba
Locale	Havana and Matanzas Provinces, Cuba
Termini	Havana Casablanca railway station; 23°08′32″N 82°20′41″W / 23.1423°N 82.3448°W; Matanzas Versalles railway station; 23°03′08″N 81°34′27″W / 23.0521°N 81.5743°W;
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Operator(s)	Ferrocarriles de Cuba
Depot(s)	Hershey railway station
Rolling stock	Brill Interurban
History
Opened	1917 (Hershey railway station to Havana Casablanca railway station); 1918 (Hershey railway station to Matanzas Versalles railway station)
Technical
Number of tracks	Single
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead line, 1,200 V DC

Legend

					Havana Casablanca station
					to and from Cojímar
					to Havana La Coubre
					Molina
					from Havana la Coubre
					Bahía
					Guanabacoa
					from Havana la Coubre
					Cuadra
					Elisa
					Bacuranao
					Tarará-Barrera
					Justiz
					Las Playas
					Corona
					Guanabo
					to Playas del Este
					La Lima
					Portilla
					Penas Altas
					Elio Llerena
					San Francisco
					Milto Padrón
					San Matías
					Río Blanco
					La Sierra
					Hershey (Camilo Cienfuegos)
					to and from Jaruco
					Paula
					San Mateo
					to Rubion-Caraballo
					Camagoira
					from Santa Cruz del Norte
					Jibacoa
					San Lorenzo
					Calderán
					Concuni
					Armenteros
					Avendanos
					Canasí
					Desquite
					San Juan
					Las Canadas
					San José
					Nano
					San Esteban
					San Adrian
					San Antonio
					Corral Nuevo
					San Miguel
					Margot
					Mena
					Los Mangos
					to Santa Clara
					Matanzas Versalles station

The Hershey Electric Railway, also known as the Hershey Railway, is a standard-gauge electric interurban railway that runs from Casablanca, Havana, to the city of Matanzas, approximately 92 kilometres (57 mi) to the east.^[1] There are a number of intermediate halts and a station and depot at the town of Camilo Cienfuegos, better known by its pre-revolutionary name of Hershey. The railway is the only surviving electric line in Cuba.^[2] The railway was built by The Hershey Company to transport sugar to the port of Havana. The original electric interurban cars were bought from the JG Brill Company, but these were replaced by 60-year old cars from the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya in the 1990s.^[3]^[4]

^ Enoch, Marcus; Warren, James P; Valdés Rı́os, Humberto; Henrı́quez Menoyo, Enrique (January 2004). "The effect of economic restrictions on transport practices in Cuba" (PDF). Transport Policy. 11 (1): 67–76. doi:10.1016/S0967-070X(03)00054-4. S2CID 175387.
^ Ewing, Ed (21 February 2008). "Slow train across Cuba". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
^ Delgado Valdés, Elio (11 November 2012). "Cuba's only Electric Train, the Hershey". Havana Times. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
^ "World Update". Railway Age. 199 (6): 24. June 1998. ISSN 0033-8826.

[1] Enoch, Marcus; Warren, James P; Valdés Rı́os, Humberto; Henrı́quez Menoyo, Enrique (January 2004). "The effect of economic restrictions on transport practices in Cuba" (PDF). Transport Policy. 11 (1): 67–76. doi:10.1016/S0967-070X(03)00054-4. S2CID 175387.

[guard01-2] Ewing, Ed (21 February 2008). "Slow train across Cuba". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2013.

[Havtime01-3] Delgado Valdés, Elio (11 November 2012). "Cuba's only Electric Train, the Hershey". Havana Times. Retrieved 27 March 2013.

[railage01-4] "World Update". Railway Age. 199 (6): 24. June 1998. ISSN 0033-8826.

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